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Originally Posted by RKBUmp
Along the same lines, how would you handle this.
This was a 12 minor LL game a few years back. Kid hit a single, over ran 1st base and turned left, but made no attempt to go to second and was walking back to 1st. Defense coach starts yelling for 1st baseman to tag him out. 1B lunges at runner to tag him, runner on instinct starts trying to avoid the tag and now does make a move toward 2nd and gets tagged.
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Shame on the runner. OUT!
Lesson learned when someone tells the runner he should have simply returned to 1st and allowed himself to be tagged.